Jaimie’s Comments (group member since Jun 17, 2018)

Jaimie’s comments from the smithies reading books! group.

When you finish a book, should you just choose one of the options to count it as? Or can it count for multiple?

Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee (and it's sequel!) it's just really unknown lmao. It's about a bisexual Asian girl living in post-apocalyptic America where a bunch of people have super powers. Her parents are superheros, her big sis is a superhero, but she's almost too old for any powers to present and she's seemingly power-less. In an effort to fill her time, she takes an internship at this really great, well-known company (think Apple or Google) where her cute-ass crush, Abby, happens to work! Only twist: It turns out her internship is ACTUALLY for supervillians! Her parents' archnemises!

The book is SO entertaining! I'm utter garbage for anyone (good, bad) with superpowers and it was a really nice take on dismantling the tradition superhero/supervillian narrative, complete with some good ol' political and corporate corruption!

Besides the fact that it's an INCREDIBLE book, it's super diverse! Almost everyone is LGBTQ+ and a person of color! The main character of the first book is a bi Asian girl and the mc of the sequel is a badass black trans boy!

The author is also SUPER nice, I messaged her a little bit through Tumblr and she was sooo sweet!! Support queer authors of color!!!